"My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved."
― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"Politics have no relation to morals."
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"He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against."
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"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer."
― Niccolo Machiavelli |
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"One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who simply act like lions are stupid."
― Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot." ― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up."
― Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."
― Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees."
― Niccolo Machiavelli |
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"A man who wishes to profess at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good." ― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately."
― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her." ― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived."
― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"Men intrinsically do not trust new things that they have not experienced themselves."
― Niccolo Machiavelli
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